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It is a unique educational game to learn to code as the kids can learn from step-by-step tutorials while they build games and apps. The game has many parts for teaching different aspects of coding. It has used a unique gaming strategy to attract kids. The combination of colorful art and characters give this game a funny look. There is no need to learn from boring lectures when you can play and learn.
Tynker is the designer of this game. They have many awards and recognitions because of their games. Tynker: Coding for kids and Tynker junior are two excellent apps by this company. They won the parents' choice gold award, academics' choice award, and Tillywig brain-child award. It indicates that they have made an excellent game. It is helping the educators as many schools make it a part of their curriculum.
We love this game because of its colorful graphics and excellent storyline. You can be a Barbie and take a career path as you can become one of the six professionals. The game teaches us that we can become anything. It inspires kids. It also helps parents learn more about their kid's abilities. Parents can check the kid's progress and the areas where they need to work more.
Most educational games do not have a high rating on the play store because kids do not like boring apps. Tynker is different as they have more than a hundred thousand game installs. They have a high rating on the play store and iOS app store. The game is rated 3+. It means that kids of age three years can also play this game. The game can be difficult for the three years old kids as they cannot read. Once the kids can read, they will be able to play this game. The game is rated best for 8-14 by the US today. We can understand that kids can play this game at an early age but the perfect age to play this game is 8-14 years.
It is a free game as you do not need to pay anything to install the game and start it. There are some premium features in the game. If you want a full learning experience, you may have to pay a monthly fee. There is no need to go to the website and pay as the play store will collect the payment for you. Kids can use easy commands to learn the coding. There is no need to write lengthy code to command walk. Kids can drag and drop the walk button and attach it to the start to initiate it.
You can start by learning from the puzzles and games. It has prebuilt coding blocks to create games and apps. They have expressed the loops, conditional statements, and coding functions in a fun way. Kids will learn to code with pattern recognition. The game has thousands of tutorials. You will get a 200 tutorial starter pack. If you take the premium subscription, you will get access to more than 5000 coding tutorials. It is enough for kids to start their career in coding at an early age.
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This game is a collection of many small coding games. Most games allow you to start from level one and progress to the higher levels. Thie portal let you choose the coding game you want to start. You will get to the game levels inside every small game.
First Look
When you open the game for the first time, it will take you to the game's main menu. You will find the settings page in the upper left corner of the menu. You can use this option to enable in-app purchases. If you want to save your progress, you can click the sign-in button in the upper right corner. You can use the google account to join the game for free, It also has options for community, workshop, and projects on the menu screen. All the games are available in the middle of the screen. It has eleven games to learn to code.
Downloading additional games
This portal does not allow you to play the games as you need to download each of them separately from the main menu. Space cadet is the first game on the list. You can click on this game to go to the download section. There is a download button on the bottom to start the download. If you have a stable internet connection, it will take less than a minute to start the game. You can design games for yourself if you do not like any of the games from their list. The game has many features that will help you with game coding and designing game physics.
Missions
You can start the first mission by choosing a male or female character. You need to help the cadet find a new spacecraft after the accident. You will get the first coding command in this game because this command will allow your character to walk and pick the gun. It will complete the first mission. In the second mission, you need to use two walk commands to reach the ray gun. There are many commands to help your character reach the supplies for building the spaceship. You need to count the number of commands to reach the destination. If you add more or fewer commands, you will fail the mission.
Backend features
Some games have storylines as you can move forward in your career in the game. The game will record the details of your progress as you go to the upper levels. The game can share these details with your parents or teachers. The parents can congratulate the students for winning the game levels. It increases student satisfaction.
Conclusion
We can conclude that it is an excellent game for kids to learn to code. It has fun-packed games to teach coding. Kids love to play this game because it does not provide boring details. The kids will learn by actions. It is crucial to have the latest mobile devices as it only supports some of the latest mobile operating systems.
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